The Holy Blossom Temple Foundation
Public foundation · Toronto, Ontario · BN 884377565RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,389,905) as filed with the CRA.
The Holy Blossom Temple Foundation is a public foundation based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $4.8M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 50% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $3.4M in 2024, the largest being $3.4M to Holy Blossom Temple. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.1M in 2020 to $4.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The foundation's purpose is to recieve and maintain funds to be applied to holy blossom temple (toronto hebrew congregation) and to other charitable organizations that are also registered charities to the income tax act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.8M | $3.4M | — | — | $3.4M | $4.7M |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.3M | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.6M | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.3M | — | — | $2.3M | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $3.3M | — | — | $3.3M | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.4M to 1 qualified donee:
- Holy Blossom Temple$3.4M
Received $1.1M from 12 charities:
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$502K
- SGNC Foundation$250K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$186K
- The Max and Larry Enkin Family Foundation$86K
- The Lloyd and Gladys Fogler Foundation$29K
- The Charney Family Foundation$25K
- Andrew and Leslie Hoffman Family Foundation$14K
- THE BRETTLER/Mintz Foundation$8,476
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$7,500
- Mel & Pamela Himel Family Foundation$5,000
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$2,500
- Fung Loy Kok Institute of Taoism$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joan Garson (president); Elliott Jacobson (past president); Sara Charney (secretary); Lesley Offman (vice-chair); Samuel Sapera (treasurer); Ilsa Blinder (director); Nancy Cohen (director); Phyllis Denaburg (director); Avra Rosen (director); Martha Cass (director); Daniel Wilson (vp annual campaign); David Fine (director); Maddie Axelrod (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Holy Blossom Temple Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 884377565RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.